When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license Parker is working in a Portland bar staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised.